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People get excited about what excites you. When a keynote speaker is jacked up about a topic, it’s hard not to be jacked up as well. If your pastor is passionate about a Sunday teaching, you’re more likely to remember it and absorb that teaching.

As a marketer, small business owner, or salesperson, remember that people will listen when you’re passionate about whatever it is you do. Someone once told me, “you can’t sell it if you don’t love it.” If you truly love your product, business, website, blog, whatever, then people will be infected by your passion.

This is a pretty big announcement for me, as well as an experience that has been truly humbling.

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of HARO. I’ve even shared on this blog articles I responded to through HARO that ended up quoting me. The times I’ve been quoted have been awesome, but those quotes were only published in online articles. Not that I’m complaining, in fact, it was quite the experience the first time I was mentioned on someone else’s blog.

After a while, I figured the best use for HARO was the free press I’d get when one of my quotes was published. Then, a few weeks ago, I was contacted by a gentlemen looking to use my quote in a book. I’d seen HARO requests from authors writing their latest books, but I never thought I’d qualify as a respectable authority to be quoted. I was wrong.

I had not one, but two people from the same carpet cleaning company stop by my house the other day. They were offering a deal and they were going door-to-door to sell it. The deal was for one free room/floor rug/piece of furniture cleaning. After declining the offer, this dual encounter had me posting on my twitter account:

“If your product/service was really that awesome, would you really have to go door to door “giving” it away? #justsayin”